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Ryan's staff is going to have

artappraiser — Tue, 16 May 2017 18:57:22 +0000

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Ryan's staff is going to have a hard time avoiding this meme. The same story is @ The Hill, focusing on his old tweet, and everyone on The Hill reads The Hill, and I see indications of it going viral, with 14,400 Facebook shares of the story so far:

Ryan tweet on classified info resurfaces after bombshell Trump report

By Paulina Firozi - 05/15/17 06:04 PM EDT

Paul Ryan might regret having

artappraiser — Tue, 16 May 2017 17:01:59 +0000

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Paul Ryan might regret having said this about Hillary Clinton

By Amber Phillips @ WaPo, May 15 at 6:06 PM

[....] In July 2016, few in Washington were more incredulous that the FBI decided not to charge Hillary Clinton with a crime for sending and receiving classified information on her private email server than House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.).

Ryan issued one of the Republicans' irate statements:

“No one should be above the law. But based upon the director's own statement, it appears damage is being done to the rule of law. Declining to prosecute Secretary Clinton for recklessly mishandling and transmitting national security information will set a terrible precedent. The findings of this investigation also make clear that Secretary Clinton misled the American people when she was confronted with her criminal actions.” [....]

#1 most popular article @

artappraiser — Tue, 16 May 2017 15:27:30 +0000

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#1 most popular article @ NYTimes right now: Mr. David Brooks (like it or not, dagbloggers) with his

When the World Is Led by a Child

Reports that President Trump betrayed an intelligence source reveal the dangerousness of an immature man.

Fox News is claiming it was

NCD — Tue, 16 May 2017 05:22:45 +0000

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Fox News is claiming it was just "locker room talk."

Pity poor Susan. Maybe she

Michael Wolraich — Tue, 16 May 2017 02:48:37 +0000

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Pity poor Susan. Maybe she should pick a different party.

This quote from Senator Susan

artappraiser — Tue, 16 May 2017 02:16:42 +0000

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This quote from Senator Susan Collins tonight to reporters: “"Can we have a crisis-free day? That’s all I'm asking."
— Carol Costello (@CarolCNN) May 15, 2017

Reuters and BuzzFeed also

artappraiser — Tue, 16 May 2017 02:07:45 +0000

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Reuters and BuzzFeed also published this story after WaPo did, using "two U.S. officials" as their sources. So as the story develops, those two as well as WaPo and the NYT are the ones to look to for any pushback to White House spin.

Apparently White House

artappraiser — Tue, 16 May 2017 02:00:25 +0000

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Apparently White House communications staff basically "forged the signature" of Tillerson/State Dept. in one statement on the story. Kind of makes sense, if you're spinning talking points for the entire government, why bother going through all those motions? From CNN

The White House issued a statement from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after the publication of a Washington Post report saying that Trump had revealed highly sensitive intelligence to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak in the course of a conversation about ISIS.

The only issue: State Department officials had no idea the statement had come out, learning about it only from CNN.

It was more than 20 minutes later before Tillerson's agency released the same terse 44-word statement that echoed the phrasing other administration officials are using to try to shoot down the Post report.

McMaster on why it would be

NCD — Tue, 16 May 2017 01:51:53 +0000

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McMaster on why it would be totally impossible for Trump to yap about top secret info with the wrong people:

"There's nothing the president takes more seriously than the security of the American people," McMaster told reporters.

Ohhhh...? Nothing he is more serious about...?

Trump can be trusted to take seriously his grandiose image of himself and his bank account.....the sole objectives that have consumed him for his entire life.

It was just for Trump. It's

NCD — Mon, 15 May 2017 23:48:27 +0000

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It was just for Trump. It's his favorite.

He was eating cake at Mar-a-Lago when he ordered the missiles on Syria. Trump and the Russians don't like the CIA so no cake for them.